Metroid Prime Hunters (DS) NON-holographic packaging

[GM80]

Saw this at Sam's today. Every other MPH I 've seen has been in the holographic packaging. Is this a second run starting to show up? Anyone else seen it?

[exit]

Are you sure it wasn't just a display box or something? If not, looks like we have a future rare item on our hands.

[Drexel923]

Did you pick it up...if so, is anything else different about the cover (numbers, text, etc)?

[GM80]

Did you pick it up?

No, and it wasn't a display. They had about 5 of 'em. I guess I'll go back and get one if no one else has seen them.

[GM80]

OK, I went back to Sam's and here's the results. The good, the bad and the ugly:

The good: There is indeed some difference other than the non-holographic printing. The final digit on the top right of the UPC code is 2 instead of 1, and the code at the very bottom right of the back is 57096C instead of 57096B. I guess that means it's another run of some sort.

The bad: There were not five copies. There were two, in front of three World Championship Poker boxes. Sam's also doesn't have the best price on the game, still $33.66. Also, it proved impossible to take a "comparison shot" ... my camera never picked up the holographic reflections so you can't tell which is which.

The ugly: I bought both of them. I only need one, so the first reply can have the other one for Sam's retail & sales tax ($36.44) + your choice of shipping costs. Priority Mail would be easiest for me, UPS and FedEx dropoffs are not convenient from home.

EDIT: Will be gone for a week as of Saturday a.m., leave a private message if you want it.

[DocRamon]

as said, yes, this exists. pretty new actually. there's a decent comparison shot out there, i'll have to find whatever board i saw it on...

as with pretty much any cover art alterations, there are minor changes to numbers and stuff... nothing incredibly earth shattering, though i'm sure some of the hardest of the hardcore will clamor for this... though i'd assume the holocover will be more rare in the future...?

the code changing from B to C makes sense... i'm guessing that 57096 was the original cover that more resembled first hunt, 57096A was the version with the NWFC logo on the bottom, B is the holo, C is now the non-holo. and look at tetris... that code has an A on the end to account for the wifi logo movement. it's not really another run per se, just a change in printed cover art. that's what those numbers signify.